modern jazz giant, dave brubeck died of heart failure today on his way to a doctor's appointment in connecticut. but his roots are here in california. >> he will be remembered as someone who was fearless. >> reporter: that's at the university of pacific in stockton, where streets are named for him, an institute bears his name, and where he met his life. he enrolled to be a central valley rancher like his dad, but his passion came from his classic musically trained mother. he was drawn to study with this man, french composer, darius mio. >> mio gave him sort of the permission to be himself, and also to be an experimentalist. >> included in this group, phil brubeck. >>> albumming of the octet that proceeded his quartet. tomorrow he would have turned 92 years old. rita williams, ktvu, channel 2 news. ♪ [ music ] >>> checking live storm tracker 2 for showers. cleared out of the area now, the loss of the showers are now moving south. you might see a little drizzle tonight but what you will see will be a lot of fog. wet ground, long nights, cool nights, fog forms. computer model at midnight, a lot